Signify Premium Insight: Oracle Ups Microsoft’s Efforts on Journey Into Healthcare

For some years, the healthcare market has been seen as one of the key sectors into which investment from big tech companies would one day flow. There have been several instances of this happening in the past with Google, Amazon, and IBM among those that have already acted upon their designs for the sector, with varying levels of success.

More recently, however, these broader ambitions have started to become more tangible, and more serious, with the most notable move being made by Microsoft in April, when the company announced it was taking over radiology transcription specialist Nuance for $19.7bn.